This passage continues to show the Thunder Bay Police’s gross mishandling of Jethro’s disappearance and death. By immediately ruling out foul play, the police raised Jethro’s family and community member’s suspicions—and what Dora discovered when she looked at Jethro’s body seemed to confirm that the police were actively trying to ignore the facts in front of them. Whether they were covering something up or whether they simply didn’t care to invest time and money in investigating the death of an Indigenous boy, one thing became clear: racism, colonialism, and the echoes of cultural genocide were still the basis of relations between white Canadians and Indigenous people, and always in ways that harmed the Indigenous people.